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1、英美文学史使用教材：1«英国文学史及选读»二册，吴伟仁编2«美国文学史及选读»二册，吴伟仁编主讲人：代奎华Unit1TheAnglo-SaxonPeriodDevelopmentofLiterature1ThreestagesofEnglishlanguagedevelopment:i.OldEnglish/Anglo-Saxon(OE.Asthelanguageupto1066isusu.called)TheoldEnglishlanguage,alsocalledAnglo-Saxon,wastheearliestform
2、ofEnglish.Itisdifficult togiveexact datesfortheriseanddevelopmentofalanguage,becauseitdoesnotchangesuddenly;but perhapsitistruetosaythatOldEnglishwasspokenfromaboutAD.600toabout1100.ii.MiddleEnglish(about1100-1500)iii.ModernEnglish(about1500-present)2.Twodivisionsof
3、theliteratureofthisperiod:Pagan----oralsagasChristian----thewritingsdevelopedunderteachingofthemonksIII.BeowulfBeowulf,writteninOldEnglishsometimebeforethetenthcenturyA.D.,describestheadventuresofagreatScandinavianwarriorofthesixthcentury.1.Arichfabricoffactandfancy
4、,BeowulfistheoldestsurvivingepicinBritishliterature.2.Definitionsofepici.Anextendednarrativepoemwithaheroicorsuperhumanprotagonistengagedinanactionofgreatsignificanceinavastsetting(oftenincludingtheunderworldandengagingthegods).ExamplesofepicpoemsareEdmundSpenser'sT
5、heFaerieQueene,JohnMilton'sParadiseLost,WilliamWordsworth'sThePrelude,ElizabethBarretBrowning'sAuroraLeigh,andT.S.Eliot's"TheWasteLand."TheIliadOdysseyiii.HomerandEpicPoetryTheearliestsurvivingGreekpoemsofantiquityareHomer'sIliadandOdyssey,theoldestepicpoems.Virgil,
6、consciouslyimitatingHomer,producedthemostfamousepicpoemofAugustanRome,theAeneid.They'relongnarrativepoemsthatrecountthedeedsofahero(oftenlegendary),andareusuallygrandinscope.Anumberofformalqualitiesaretraditionallyassociatedwiththeepic,usuallybecausetheyappearedinHo
7、merandhavebeenimitatedsince.InbothGreekandLatin,themostcommonepicmeterwasdactylichexameter.TheepicsimileisafeatureofHomer'sverse(seeSimileforanexample).MostepicsbeginwithaninvocationtotheMuse.ThevisittotheunderworldintheeleventhbookoftheIliadisimitatedinthesixthbook
8、oftheAeneid.FamousEnglishepicsincludetheOldEnglishpoemBeowulf,and,intheRenaissance,Spenser'sFaerieQueeneandMilton'sParadiseLost;thereareal
